The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-05
THE HADDOCK MURDER.
Further Efforts of the Defense to Fasten the
ClergymanS Assassination Upon Leayitt.

Sioux CITY. Ia. April 4-The court convened
to-day at p. NJ. The room was again packed to
its full capacity, and the city is filing up with
strangers. The evidence to-day was a little bet
ter, in a positive sense, than anything intro
duced by the Defense but disjointed and indi-
rect in its attempt TO fasten the crime on Leav-
lit. The witnesses, a general thing are
saioon-men or gamblers. On cross-examina-
ton they do not hold their direct evidence, and
the effect of their contradictory testimony upon
the general public and audience does not make
matters look aattering for the accused
The first witness called was j. M. Simonson,
until rencently saloon keeper. He told about
the meeting of the saloon men the night of Aug.
g when Leavitt was made member, but denied
that it had permanent organization, and said
it was temporary arrangement while the
looms were resisting legal proceedings. 1t was
to help procure lawyers aud fund. He told
Leavitt this. and Leavitt responded that in
Leavenworth the saloon-keepers had a lawyer
better than any to be had in Sioux City. Il
said: If you know such a lawyer We had better
get him. That is the way the meeting happened
to be called" On cross-examinaton his general
denial of every material point connected with
the organization brought out laughter from the
audience.
julius Liberton was sworn. He said he lived
at the engine-house last August, but was not
member of the fire company. The ensine-house
is half block south of the Columbia House. on
the west side of Water street. II was in the
engine house, up stairs, the evening of Aug. 3.
I occupied the northeast room The window was
on the north side. the east end. When the
shot fired was looking north. / saw the
man that fired the shot He was about the CEN
ter of Water street. The man that fired the shot
was in front of the other, about a foot away.
After firing the shot he ran north on Water
street Before firing the shot he came from the
Columbia House corner, in the rear
OF Rev. Haddock. 1 could him
run north Water street far as the
blacksmith chop near the sidewalk" On cross
examination, the witness said he had run a sa-
loon at Leavenworth, Kan; worked now at the
Standard Theater. the same which Leavitt used
to One Of the lawyers for the defense
told him not to talk to the lawyers for the
State: he had been to the Office of the lawyers
for the defense several times. He continued:
II saw the fash of the pistol. l saw one man
standing behind another the crossing.
The shot wcs fred one or two seconds after
turned arsa1d facing the window. l don't
know how many steps Haddock took. l did not
testify before the coroner's jury that l could
not see the man who fred the shot run more
than ten feet My memory is good / saw the
man run across the street to the blacksmith
shop. l saw only two other men on the scene
one north. the other south"
Charles Schmidt said: II boarded at the
Columbia House. On the night of the murder
was the bar-room, and heard the shot fired.
was close to the window. Charles Eberhart
and were playing cards when heard the shot.
jumped up and looked out of the window; saw
one man stagger and fall, and the two merbrun
away. They both north. Could not see
| them after they reached the blacksmith shop
| The man that ran north had on light hat and
| rubber coat Am we'll acquainted with John
| ArensdorI; neither of the men that ran away was
| he. Soon after the shot went outside and over
| to where Haddock was shot / stayed there till
| the body was taken away. l was near Deenen s
corner, and saw John Arensdorf there. He
came from the east. along the south side of
| Fourth street 1t about fifteen minutes
| after the shooting that he stopped there. A
| large crowd was present l went with
| him west as far as the Columbia House; don't
know what became of him then. went into
| the Columbia House" On sexamination
| witness said the window out of which he looked
had wooden screens. "Haddoek had half fell
! when saw him, and in the middle of the cross
ing the men picked him up and dragged him to
the sidewalk. Two men were running when
| first looked. and at that time were about seven
feet northeast OF Haddock. When / first saw
them they were running fast, and about five feet
apart"
j. w. Taylor. cook at the Shepard saloon on
the Sd OF August, swore TO having prepared a
meal fer Arensdorf and friend on that night,
between $50 and 10 o'clock.
&. l.. Hamilton a steuographer at the coroner's
inquest, identified the copy of Van Ingam's evil
dence. and the defense introduced it for the pur-
pose of impeachment The defense offered in
! evidence the original copy of Leavitt's confes-
| sion. County Attorney Marsh observed that i;
was written in pencil and loosely tied together
and the State might require 1t to be identified.
/ Withdrawn fO-mO Ady0urnad